Visiting Nablus for the first time in a while,one can never be unbiased or have zeroexpectations, especially if he had heard thedifferent narratives from his ancestors, or readthe different literature which try to portraythe glorious history of Nablus. As a result,looking at such a historically layered city isalways a process of going back and forth betweenthe images you actually see, and the imagesresonating in your imagination and memory, andtrying to fit each of these, usually opposing,images to each other. So we can say that: Thehistoric layer formed a lens through which wesensed and perceived the city as it is now